It exists as a classified monument, formally recognised and mapped, yet the details that would ordinarily accompany such a designation, its age, its affiliations, the names of those buried within it, remain largely unrecorded in any publicly accessible form.

Coolfadda is a small rural townland, and graveyards of this kind are not uncommon across Munster. Many are the remnants of early medieval burial grounds, sometimes associated with a long-vanished church or a local saint's cult, sometimes simply the customary burying place of a community that predates the parish system entirely. Others are post-medieval in origin, reflecting the scattered patterns of rural Catholic burial during and after the Penal era, when formal church infrastructure was limited. Without further documentation it is not possible to say with confidence which category this particular site belongs to, but its designation as a monument suggests it is considered of sufficient antiquity or significance to warrant protection.